M.B.B.S., M.D. (Paediatrics), Fellowship in Neonatology (Australia)Founder President, Neonatology Forum Mumbai,

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• Founder member of both Maharashtra and Mumbai NNF

• Pioneer in Intensive Care Neonatology in Mumbai and Maharashtra with a keen interest in academics and teaching

• First Doctor to successfully use surfactant for RDS in preterm newborns in Mumbai and Maharashtra

• First Doctor to publish a study on Surfactant therapy in India

• First Doctor to start Therapeutic Hypothermia for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy in Mumbai

• Part of team that performed first stem cell transplantation in India.

• Pioneered a closed umbilical cord blood collection method

• Many publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations at National conferences and authored many chapters in text books

• Recently published Four original unique studies in peer reviewedinternational journals on Feeding of VLBW Acta Pediatrica, ROP in Archives of Diseases in Childhood, BRAT 1 in J of Neurology & Mitochondrial depletion syndrome in J of Neonatology

• Invited twice as a scholar to James Cook University Hospital,Middlesbrough, UK